Sheldon Krimsky
Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Tufts University
Medford
MA
United States
2012
2011
2010
(617) 627-2301
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Sheldon Krimsky is professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts & Sciences and Adjunct Professor in Public Health and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University. He received his bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Brooklyn College, CUNY and Purdue University respectively, and a masters and doctorate in philosophy at Boston University. Professor Krimsky's research has focused on the linkages between science/technology, ethics/values and public policy. He is the author of over 180 essays and eight books including” Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy (MIT Press) 1982, Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics (Praeger) 1991, Hormonal Chaos:The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Science in the Private Interest: Has the lure of profits corrupted biomedical research? (Rowman & Littlefield Pub.) 2003. He is co-author of Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process (Auburn House) 1988 and Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy and Social Values (University of llinois), 1996, co-editor of a collection of papers titled Social Theories of Risk (Praeger) 1992, and Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights (Rowman & Littlefield Pub.) 2005. Professor Krimsky’s has published over 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in many books and leading journals. His 9th book is in production with Columbia University Press titled Genetic Justice: DNA Databanking, Criminal Investigation, and Civil Liberties. His 10th book also to be published by Columbia University Press is an edited collection of essays titled Race & Genetics.

Sessions I'm Associated With

2012

Tuesday 24 July 2012: 7:30pm - 9:15pm
Wednesday 25 July 2012: 9:00am - 10:30am

2011

Wednesday 27 July 2011: 9:00am - 10:20am

2010